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Hardcover
Publisher: HarperTeen
ISBN13: 9780061232923
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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What's a Princess to do? It's Mia's senior year, and things seem great. She aced her senior project, got accepted to her dream college(s), and has her birthday gala coming up . . . not to mention prom, graduation, and Genovia's first-ever elections. What's not to love about her life? Well . . . - Her senior project? It's a romance novel she secretly wrote, and no one wants to publish it.
- Prince Phillipe's campaign in the Genovian elections isn't going well, thanks to her totally loathsome cousin René, who decided to run against him.
- Her boyfriend, J.P., is so sweet and seemingly perfect. But is he the one?
- And her first love, Michael, is back from Japan . . . and back in her life.
With Genovia's and her own future hanging in the balance, Mia's got some decisions to make: Which college? Which guy? How can she choose? Especially when what she decides might determine not just the next four years, but . . . forever!
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| A long journey to a sad end |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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Very nice ending to the series, still I would kill to see more.
While I feel things are set to where they should be by the end, but there cartainly could of been a much more interesting end. Though, it is a surpriseing ending, the picture picture at the end was just too predictiable
The book is blessed with the new more mature Mia as well. Between her ability to admit she's wrong, as a bit less of obsessive behavior; Mia becomes more relateable (atleast to myself as a reader) while keeping most of the Mia readers have come to know and love. One change within Mia as a charater I didn't care for was her new need of fashion. While she may of lost her immaturity with her obsessiveness, she gains some back from her new shallow views. Mia needs her overalls and combat boots, not designer labels.
I'm very sorry to see this series end after reading it for the past 5 years, and growing up with Mia myself. But this book was deffinatly a decent ending to the series.
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| A great conclusion! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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So, I unfortunately like Mia less in this book than in the other books. She has also become a flexetarian that is flexible even for a flexetarian, which I think is ridiculous and kind of a cop out. And it doesn't really fit with her character. (And HELLO, she should have gone vegan!) But still, it was the last in the Princess Diaries books, and despite my minor complaints, it was possibly the best of them all. I feel like saying - Meg Cabot has done it again!
I know this is more of a mini review than an actual review, but just wanted to take the time to throw out there that I loved it!
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| Forever Princess won't let you down |
| Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 |
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For those fans of Princess Mia (and also for the ones who face this character for the first time) fun is granted. The girl has really grown, and I guess this is going to be the last chapter of the saga, indeed. As an adult woman, I was able to enjoy it very much. This time we can't wait to attend Mia's eighteenth birthday party (fully organized by her grandmother), Prom and graduation. I would recommend it for any teenager, but also for mothers who want to understand better their adolescents at home.
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| predictable ending. SPOILER |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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***This entire review is a big fat spoiler.*** sorry, i need to spoiler so that i can properly explain why i'm giving it 3 stars.
Well, we all knew how it was going to end. Mia was going to get back together with Michael. I never liked Michael or Lily so I was never rooting for he and Mia to get back together but this series is so predictable, I knew that's what was gonna happen. I was just so disappointed at what a dud JP was. Honestly what a dud MIA was. Mia NEVER liked JP. She never once gushed about how cute or funny or smart he was or whatever. She was never excited about his play and yet expected him to be excited about her book. She was just basically using him because she'd rather have a boyfriend than be single because even though she's such a huge feminist and all she is totally worthless and incapable of functioning without a boyfriend. Even losing her virginity to him just seems to be a chore that she's not even excited about even though she's the one who decides that they are going to 'do it' at prom night. she freaks out for half the book that he hasn't asked her to prom yet and then further freaks out when he does ask her. SHE IS USING HIM, SHE DOESN'T EVEN LIKE HIM.
So what kind of lame stupid love triangle is this??? In the Twilight series, fans could get excited and root for Jacob even though they knew Edward was going to win. Stephenie Meyer at least managed to make Jacob likeable and interesting. Even though Bella was using Jacob, she also had feelings for him, for a while she was really torn between the two boys. JP has no personality and Mia, not even in the privacy of her journal, EVER expresses any desire towards him. What was the point??? Meg Cabot would have done a better job if she had allowed Mia to be SINGLE for the last 2 years and grow up to be a strong independent woman who doesn't need a guy in her life.
why didn't i rate this book lower? i don't know, it was an easy listen (audiobook) and i'm satisfied with how the series ended. i did like how genovia became a democracy and the dad had to run to be prime minister. it just seems like meg cabot missed the point about princesses and what an audience wants to read. if lana had become princess this series might have been much more fun.
and what is it with taking cheap shots at every author? it's like she's obsessed with stephenie meyer, in the last book she was making fun of people who read teen vampire novels and in this one shes making fun of cliff-diving lessons (an important plot point in book 2 of twilight). and she went on and on about jk rowlings too. Really, Meg Cabot, GROW UP!! I don't like the twilight series either but it's real bad form to make fun of it in your book.
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| A fabulous way to wrap up the series |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Forever Princess, the last volume of the Princess Diaries series, takes the reader on a journey through the end of Mia's senior year in high school. It is clear throughout the course of the novel that Mia has indeed matured from the days where she was lusting after Josh Ritcher and claiming to be a 5'9', flat-chested freak who was failing algebra. Now, Mia's problems are a lot different- deciding on what college she should attend, finding someone to publish the romance novel she wrote for her senior project, and trying to reconcile differences with her ex-best friend Lilly. But, quite possibly the most interesting dilemma of the entire novel is the mental and psychological struggle Mia undergoes in deciphering whether her current boyfriend, J.P., or her ex, Michael, is the one she truly loves.
Despite the plot line that is a clear homage to the ending of the series, Mia's slightly apathetic wit, her numerous pop-culure references, and her uncanny spirit and tendency to overlook and overanalyze things is still very much present. This, however, is not a bad thing and shows just how much everyone's favorite literary princess has grown up while still retaining some of her most lovable qualities.
If you are a loyal reader of the Princess Diaries series, you will only feel satisfaction (and a little bit of sadness, too, since the series is over) once you close to book. Meg Cabot has managed to close off the series convincingly and wonderfully.
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